Surprising silence on the nation’s housing market

For all the discussion about the economy in last night’s presidential debate and on the campaign trail, one key topic that the incumbent and his challenger have largely been silent about is what to do about the once-mighty engine of housing in America’s economy – and how it might get stoked once again.
That may be because, for President Barack Obama and GOP White House hopeful Mitt Romney, the subject of housing remains an extremely sensitive one, given that housing, or more precisely, the collapse of the housing market, has largely been responsible for much of the last five years of economic pain………………………………………..Full Article: Source